The Deeper Thinking Podcast

Karl Popper – The Open Society and Its Enemies (The Fragile Lamp)

For those drawn to the struggle between prophecy and freedom, the fragility of democracy, and the vigilance required to keep societies open.

#KarlPopper #TheOpenSociety #PoliticalPhilosophy #Pluralism #Democracy #CriticalRationalism

What keeps democracy alive when prophecy promises certainty? In this episode, we return to Karl Popper’s wartime masterpiece, The Open...

The Deeper Thinking Podcast – What Steadies Us

A meditation on connection, presence, and the quiet gestures that hold us together

This episode explores what truly steadies us when life feels uncertain. Beneath the noise of achievement, there are smaller, quieter acts that anchor us: a hand resting on another, a bowl of soup left on a doorstep, the low hum of a room transformed by presence.

This episode draws on a lineage of thinker...

Entrelationalism: Carbon, Code, Capital, and Culture – An Ethic for an Interdependent Age

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For those drawn to climate ethics, AI governance, global justice, and the tangled threads of our shared future.

#Entrelationalism #ClimateEthics #AIGovernance #GlobalJustice #PoliticalPhilosophy

What ethic fits a world where carbon emissions in one country flood homes in another, where lines ...

The Origins of Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt on Ideology, Terror, and the Fragility of Freedom

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For those seeking deeper understanding of power, history, and the conditions that protect or destroy human plurality.

What makes totalitarianism unlike any tyranny before it? In this episode, we explore Hannah Arendt’s landmark work The Origins of Totalitarianism, examining how ideology and terror combine to a...

Who is Leading, Who is Learning?: AI at Work

A new report from MIT has sent shockwaves through the enterprise AI world. According to the State of AI in Business 2025 study, 95% of generative AI pilots deliver zero return on investment.

#ArtificialIntelligence #MultimodalAI #ExplainableAI #PhilosophyOfTechnology #DigitalEthics #NarrativeStructures

What if the real question of AI was not how powerful it becomes, but what kind of stor...

The Weight of Meaning: Horizons, Thresholds and The Unfinished.

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For those drawn to liminality, ethical responsiveness, and the quiet power of the pause.

#Liminality #Suspension #Bridges #EthicalResponsiveness #PoliticalPhilosophy #HannahArendt #JudithButler #GiorgioAgamben #PhilosophyOfCare

What if the most revealing moments were the ones in which nothing seemed to move? This epis...

How To Live, Given What We Know

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For those drawn to what resists easy speech—fear, grief, madness, and the strange dignity of love in a mortal world.

#Existentialism #HannahArendt #SimoneWeil #Levinas #Nietzsche #Kierkegaard #MichelFoucault

Beneath the surface of ordinary life move currents we rarely name—fear, silence, madness, love, death, revenge. This episode follows those unde...

The Tyranny of the Unseen: Hidden Architectures of Power, Conscience, and Survival

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For anyone drawn to hidden structures, moral courage, and the ethics of seeing.

#PoliticalPhilosophy #HannahArendt #MichelFoucault #AntonioGramsci #SimoneDeBeauvoir #JeanPaulSartre

What do unseen architectures of power ask of us, and what do they take when we do not answer? In this episode, we move past labels and slogans ...

The Present That Won't Leave

The Deeper Thinking Podcast is digitally narrated. 

For those drawn to the strange persistence of the present, the architecture of time, and the politics of repetition.

#Foreverism #GraftonTanner #MarkFisher #CulturalTheory #PoliticalThought

What happens when the present stops passing through us and begins to hold us in place? In this episode, we explore Grafton Tanner’s concept of foreverism—a cultural...

Freedom Requires Form: Ordoliberalism and the Architecture of Care

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For those drawn to the ethics of structure, the fragility of freedom, and the quiet politics of care.

#Ordoliberalism #WalterEucken #FranzBöhm #WilhelmRöpke #AlexanderRüstow #PoliticalTheory

What keeps freedom alive? In this episode, we look beyond slogans of liberty or the reflex to deregulate, and explore the dee...

Autism: Complete As We Are

The Deeper Thinking Podcast is digitally narrated.

For those who sense that truth is not what’s said the loudest—but what survives unedited.

What happens when autistic truth is told without translation? This episode steps outside diagnosis, explanation, or accommodation and enters the lived, rhythmic world of autistic embodiment—on its own terms. Through narrative fragments, sensory precision, and ethical...

Žižek: The Cruelty of Enjoyment

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For anyone drawn to philosophical dissonance, tonal recursion, and the ethics of unresolved desire.

In this episode, we enter the tonal and philosophical architecture of Slavoj Žižek, where desire doesn’t disappear through repression, but flattens through surplus. What happens when enjoyment becomes a mandate, when the super-ego no longer says “no,” b...

Collapse as Protocol: The System Stopped Pretending

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For listeners seeking slow clarity, structural insight, and the human cost of engineered systems.

In a world accelerating toward automation, abstraction, and ambient collapse, what happens when the systems we built to serve begin to discard us? This episode traces how platforms, markets, and institutions now operate less as tool...

 Slavoj Žižek's Ideology of Performance and The Sublime Object

For anyone drawn to philosophical inquiry, subtle disobedience, and the invisible logic of modern life.

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What if belief doesn’t begin in the mind, but in the gesture? In this episode, we explore ideology not as abstract conviction, but as ritual—something lived through posture, reflex, repetition. Inspired by the work of S...

Nietzsche: Nobody Is Coming to Save You

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For listeners willing to endure clarity, sharpened ethics, and the spiral of becoming.

What happens when you stop waiting to be rescued? This episode enters the philosophical fire of Friedrich Nietzsche and emerges with a rare kind of ethic—one forged not in principles, but in pressure. With no map, no moral system, and no savior in sight, we...

Freud, Wittgenstein, and the Unconscious

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For listeners drawn to philosophical tension, psychoanalytic nuance, and the quiet craft of unknowing.

What happens when we place Sigmund Freud’s buried depths beside Ludwig Wittgenstein’s surface clarity? In this episode we explore why the unconscious still matters—yet may not be where we think it is. Moving through psychoanalytic practice, ...

Simulacra and Simulation: Memory, Presence, and the Drift of the Real

For those drawn to philosophical disquiet, symbolic drift, and the quiet collapse of reality into representation.

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What happens when experience is no longer remembered as it was lived—but only as it was posted, captioned, or shared? In this episode, we trace the unsettling terrain explored by Jean Baudrillard in S...

Why We Still Can’t Think Beyond Capitalism (Mark Fisher, Neoliberalism, and Capitalist Realism)

For those drawn to psychic dissonance, hauntological atmosphere, and the deep politics of mood.

#MarkFisher #CapitalistRealism #Neoliberalism #

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What if the most successful system isn’t the one we believe in—but the one we’ve stopped trying to escape? In this episode, we explore the ambien...

The American Revolution Isn’t Over

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For those drawn to quiet responsibility, historical honesty, and the unfinished work of memory.

The American Revolution was not a beginning, it was a rupture. In this episode, we trace how the United States was born not from unity, but fracture; not from clarity, but contradiction. What we call founding was a civil war. What is celebrated as freedo...